On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

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Naturally, Li Shiyue would not refuse the help that came to him.

She agreed to Gou Lao San's request and gave him a tip: "Third brother, if it snows in the next two days, there will be a chance."

Gou Laosan understood what Li Shiyue said. He was not the kind of person who liked to get to the bottom of things. He just wanted to know that this was the case.

"Hey, October, if you have anything to do, just call me!"

After seeing off Gou Lao San and Aunt San, Li Shiyue, who was standing at the gate of her yard overlooking the Dahei Mountain, suddenly felt a chill on the tip of her nose. She looked up at the gray sky. One snowflake, two snowflakes, a gust of cold wind blew. Li Shiyue stretched out her hand and opened her palm to catch it. The cold wind mixed with snowflakes fell down.

It’s snowing, the time has come!

At the same time, Liu Tan, who was practicing sword skills in the military training ground, put away his sword, stood still and looked up at the sky.

"It's snowing."

After sighing like this, Liu Tan walked out of the training ground with his sword in hand.

That night, Liujiatun welcomed a group of soldiers. The sound of more than ten horses running was still very obvious in the quiet night.

However, as the people in Liujiatun heard the noise gradually fading away, someone bravely took a lantern and went out to the direction of the sound, which was Qin Tao's house. Sure enough, they saw a group of blurry figures.

In this way, the people in Liujiatun felt relieved, knowing that someone from the noble prince Liu Shu who lived in Qin Tao's house came to visit, so they closed the door and went back to rest.

Liu Tan did go to Qin Tao's house to check on Liu Shu, but when he arrived, Liu Shu had already gone to bed.

He called the servant out and asked him in detail about Liu Shu's food, clothing and daily life. When he heard from the servant that Liu Shu's condition had improved, Liu Tan's face finally showed some expression.

"Take good care of the prince, and I will ask Doctor Liu to come again tomorrow to check the prince's pulse.

If he is well again, Zhao Guangan will come to take the prince back to the palace, so you should be careful."

"Yes, eldest son."

After seeing Liu Shu, Liu Tan led the horse to Li Shiyue's house. He had been there before, so he could remember the direction even at night.

Ma San, who was following behind Liu Tan, was not surprised at the direction Liu Tan was going. He was even a little excited. Ma San felt that if Li Shiyue was not a little girl, he would have wanted to have a drink with Li Shiyue.

Liu Tan and the others stood at the door of Li Shiyue's house. After a while, Li Shiyue came out dressed neatly.

"Did you guess that the general would come tonight?"

There is no moonlight tonight, and even though Li Shiyue is quite close, he still can't see the expression on Liu Tan's face.

So she bowed to Liu Tan and replied, "My Lord, I've been thinking about you since the snow fell.

I have very sharp ears. I heard the sound of horse hooves in the house just now. I guessed that it must be you, young master, who have arrived."

The swirling snow brought Li Shiyue's words into Liu Tan's ears, "I can agree with what you said before, but if you want me to bring more troops to attack, you have to prove that you can really find the barbarians!"

Li Shiyue followed Liu Tan's words without stuttering, "As long as the eldest master agrees, I can lead people to explore the way tonight, and I will be back within three days!"

Liu Tan was a little surprised. He didn't expect Li Shiyue to speak so freely and with such confidence.
Liu Tan was silent for a long time. Li Shiyue understood that if he wanted to gain Liu Tan's support, he must show some sincerity first.

Therefore, Li Shiyue stepped sideways and looked at Ma San whose face was blurred behind Liu Tan, and said with a smile: "Deputy General Ma, are you willing to go with me on this trip?"

Ma San naturally couldn't make his own decision. He looked at Liu Tan in front of him and shouted, "General?"

"Okay! Miss Li is so straightforward, let Ma San follow you to explore the way!"

Ma San immediately nodded and said "yes", and then Li Shiyue directly asked Liu Tan to quickly pull these barbarian horses away and pay them with money so that they could buy things and get ready to work.

"Does Miss Li have any other requests?"

"Young Master, just give me two more signal flares. If it works in three days, I will set off fireworks and wait for you to come.

If it doesn't work, I will bring people back and discuss other methods."

Liu Tan came at night and left before dawn, but this time he took the eight fine horses that Li Shiyue and his team had brought back last time. He didn't give them any silver, saying that he would ask Ma San to bring it back later.

Li Shiyue still had some trust in Liu Tan. After all, it was only a few hundred taels of silver. Liu Tan was the general of Andong, so he would not withhold such a small amount of money.

The amount is not small, but it is just a drop in the bucket for Li Shiyue and others and for Liu Tan.

The next day, when Li Shiyue opened the door, he saw a layer of white snow in the yard.

I stepped out of the door and stepped on the snow. It was not thick, just the thickness of a knuckle.

The two horses in the stable that had been urgently built two days ago in the yard started barking "Hey Er Hey Er" as soon as they saw Li Shiyue.

Li Shiyue did not sell these two horses. They are still of great use to him.

The donkey in the stable was bullied and could only stay in the corner, not even daring to bray.

When Li Shiyue saw this, he wanted to laugh. Li Qiutian, who had also gotten up at this moment, couldn't help feeling distressed when he saw the miserable state of the donkey in the stable.

"October, why don't you ask someone to build another shed to separate them."

After taking a bowl of fried beans from the kitchen, Li Shiyue went to feed the horses. They had to be taken good care of, as he would have to rely on them in the future.

"Haha, sister is right. I will ask someone to build another piece next to the stable and put a board in the middle to separate them."

During the day, seeing that the snow would not fall any more, Li Shiyue went to invite Li Wangshui, Gou Laosan and others to come over. With more people, there is more strength, and the shed was set up in just the afternoon.

As soon as they set up the shed, Ma San came on horseback and brought Li Shiyue a big bag full of silver.

After making an appointment with Ma San, Li Shiyue took the bag of silver back home.

So Li Shiyue called his relatives to come and share the money, and dinner was eaten at Li Shiyue's house.

Of course, no one would come empty-handed and ask for free food and drinks.

Some brought food, some brought pickled vegetables, and some brought dried mushrooms. In short, no one came empty-handed.

Dinner was a hodgepodge of stew. Although it didn't have much oil, the people who had experienced fleeing famine were not picky. It was a good thing to have a full meal.

Everyone gathered in the main room, and Li Shiyue directly placed a bundle of silver on the table in the middle.

Even if the oil lamp is dim, the silver ingots look very beautiful when shining on them.

Eight horses, one with a saddle and stirrups, were sold to Liu Tan for the high price of eighty taels of silver.

When they went there, there were eleven people in total including Li Shiyue's group. Except for the younger Wang Shisan and Yangzai who did not directly participate in the search for the horse, but stayed where they were and waited and helped to lead the horse, everyone else contributed greatly.

In the end, Wang Shisan and Yangzai each received ten taels of silver, and the remaining six hundred and thirty taels were divided among nine people, about seventy taels each.

What Ma San gave me were all silver ingots, which were difficult to divide. So I divided the ones that could be divided first, and for the ones that were difficult to divide, I would just break them up and record them in the account when I went back to the town to buy things.

Gou Lao San watched Li Wangshui put all the money he had received into Zhou Lanhua's hands, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

That’s almost seventy taels!

I have never seen so much money in my life.

Li Shiyue gave everyone some time to digest the money. She kept half of it and gave the remaining half directly to Li's mother behind her.

"Mother, take it and spend it."

Li's mother did not refuse. This was the money her daughter had earned with her own ability. She felt at ease taking it, but she also thought about telling Li Shiyue not to work so hard anymore. The money in the family was enough for her to use.

But how could Li's mother know that when Li Shiyue saw that everyone was almost happy, she coughed twice and said, "Everyone, I need help with something. It can earn money. Do you want to do it?" (End of this chapter)